Hacking the Hyperlinked Heart

After a string of digital dating disasters, Amy Webb dug into the data…and found her husband

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Amy Webb

Updated Jan. 14, 2013 3:54 a.m. ET

I was 30 years old, just out of a long-term relationship and no longer interested in playing the field. It was time to settle down with the right man, get married and start a family. At the urging of several friends (and my worried mother), a strategy was settled upon: I joined Match.com and JDate, a website for Jewish singles.

What followed was a series of bad dates worthy of a romantic comedy: stupid sexual remarks, too much...